The murder of an MP is obviously horrific but… … I can’t help but feel that Patel et al’s concern for MPs’ safety is disproportionate in a country where the safety of half the population is constantly called into question.

Ultimately “security” (policing etc) is not the solution.

It’s treating symptoms not causes.

A brief history of fixing humanity. 🤝 🌍

A thread. 🧵 👇 Humanity is not having a good century so far.

Endless wars, global pandemics, rich dying of disinformation, poor dying of famine & flood, rising populism, declining freedoms and occasional economic collapse & austerity.

There is a simple solution..

..but first a little “why”.

Tracking the boycott of Facebook Over the past few days a number of huge global brands have mounted a boycott of Facebook + Twitter. I have been tracking the progress here. #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0… The first I heard of the campaign starting to gain traction was Patagonia’s boycott - Patagonia though, seemed like a likely candidate.. onesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0…

A test walked into a bar and said... "foo"

Apple Privacy & the IDFA Apple have bottled their IDFA lockdown ahead of the iOS 14 launch this year The question is why? #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv… Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…

Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv… Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…

Apple Privacy & the IDFA Apple have bottled their IDFA lockdown ahead of the iOS 14 launch this year The question is why? #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv… Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…

The WIERD¹ world is changing.

👩‍💼👨‍💼 🏢 ➜ 🌳👩‍💻👨‍💻

Governments the world over have a real opportunity to;

🚗 reduce commuter-related pollution;
🏭 reduce consumer waste plastics, shipping, etc;
🔥 thereby slow the burn up of our planet .. but it would require a re-think of our social economy 💰 ..

👨‍🌾 around diverse, localised production;
🛍 around diverse, localised distribution;
🍔 around diverse, localised retail & hospitality.

Unholy flub do I hate @HSBCUKBusiness ... let me count the ways.. The fact that one can't even sign-in is frustrating enough (3x attempts... keep getting this bollocks)...

🇺🇸 The land of fleeced... Apple’s fight we with Epic, Hey!, Wordpress etc doesn’t exist in a vacuum.. it’s emblematic off The American Way... #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu… I’m a massive advocate for tax software (💙 @Xero) but it’s ludicrous that companies like Intuit can actually succeed in blocking free govt. services in order to protect their market... onesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu…

The fight against Apple & Google's AppStore cartel is heating up with Epic Games, a big player with big pockets, entering the ring... onesub.io/~jimbo/xlpotru… This is just the latest in this escalating saga. What Epic were doing here was to transparently offer an undercut price, presumably with the same net income, to really show the consumer what's going on here. Consumer choice eh... onesub.io/~jimbo/xlpotru…

The Apple & Google AppStore Cartel #KnowWhatMatters onesub.io/~jimbo/xlpotru… This is just the latest in this escalating saga. What Epic were doing here was to transparently offer an undercut price, presumably with the same net income, to really show the consumer what's... onesub.io/~jimbo/xlpotru…

PHP Fatal error: gd-webp cannot allocate temporary buffer...

... and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. 😭 Gotta love an uncatchable error...

🚫 Nothing in @bugsnag
🚫 try {} catch() {} wrapper failing..
🚫 random arbitrary broken image.. (damn weather gifs)

When I started coding age 6 (~1986) 🐣 hitting "RUN" and going off to do something else (ie LEGO) was the norm.

Recently 👨‍💻 JIT compile has become so fast you code, run, fix, run, code, run, fix, run second to second without rest.

...now I work in AI.

Run.

Right... 😴😴😴... ... today I will be mostly... reducing in vector space..

New little friend... 🦔 🦔

My God I really do thrive on routine.

🌤0430 - Alarm (iOS14 birdsong ftw)
👨‍💻 0500 - 1230 Worky workle¹
🍽1230 Lunch
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 1230 - 1800 Family stuff
🚴‍♂️ 1800 - 1830 Get my Pelet - ON!
🍔 1800 - 1900 More food²
📚 1900 - 2000 Read to each mini
🥰 2000 - 2100 Grown-up time
😴 2100 Zzz ¹ - really nice to have a few hours head down while the world is asleep ... proper coding time ...

.. and trying to do shorter, more focused stints ... so probably some hours every 7/52 rather than more hours only 5/7..

Does anyone talk about long-term #COVID19 symptoms in terms of an #allergic reaction? I've had this thought for a long time... having been laid up for ≥ 8 weeks, being a hay-fever/dust/cat allergy sufferer the symptoms felt familiar...

... but I'm know scientist, so I thought I was mad.

Identify please Twitter Still going with Jackdaw?

One of the most beautiful moments of the last 12m was sitting on the beach in 🇦🇪Dubai with Mrs M, watching our kids playing in the waves as the sun set over the sea...

... and for perhaps 20m as the sun dropped, hearing the wave of Adhan (أَذَان) wash over the city behind us. I'm reminded, because a song from my childhood has popped into my headphones; the Kyrie from Fanshaw's African Sanctus.

Essentially it's the Muslim & Christian calls to prayer together.

open.spotify.com/album/4h6zQHPe…

I can remember performing this as a child. It's beautiful too.

So.. bit random, but the has been a lot of understandable outrage in the 🇬🇧 UK about spending £11mm on an app that was *never* going to work. 🤦‍♂️

.. 👉 but 👈

... money is another thing that's not understood. 💸

Our 🇬🇧 job furlough scheme = £14bn/month. 🤯

https://twitter.com/jimbomorrison/status/1276069027132182528

The app costs, taken in the context of the furlough scheme over ~four months...

... is like buying a @Tesla for cash, and finding a tenner in the glove-box.

£11mm is a *huge* amount of money.. but for a government paying £14,000mm *every month* for a furlough scheme..

🤦‍♂️ If you need me to take a tour of your "New, improved online banking experience" that badly @HSBCUKBusiness ...

... then you're just not doing it right.

🏆 Worst UX Award 10 years running. When I took over @dbsdigital 10 years the first thing I did was to move to @Xero ... and we chose @HSBCUKBusiness at the time because their bank-feed integration was revolutionary... 🚀